Is SNMP polling really supported/available in xymon?
I recompiled 4.3.4 this morning and successfully created the xymon-snmpcollect binary, but I couldn't find any information in the docs or archives on how to use it.
Does anyone have any pointers? I currently use devmon for all of my SNMP polling, but I was interested in seeing what was built into xymon.
-dan
Not natively. You need Devmon as of today.
http://devmon.sourceforge.net/
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Dan Smith <rrdansmith at gmail.com> wrote:
** Is SNMP polling really supported/available in xymon?
I recompiled 4.3.4 this morning and successfully created the xymon-snmpcollect binary, but I couldn't find any information in the docs or archives on how to use it.
Does anyone have any pointers? I currently use devmon for all of my SNMP polling, but I was interested in seeing what was built into xymon.
-dan
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Two things
- Does anyone know what the xymon-snmpcollect code is for?
- If it is either not used now or not ready for "prime time", it might be a good idea to put a comment in the code or add something to the web site that says that it's not available.
-dan
From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 10:02 AM To: Dan Smith Cc: Xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] SNMP Polling Support
Not natively. You need Devmon as of today.
http://devmon.sourceforge.net/
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Dan Smith <rrdansmith at gmail.com> wrote:
Is SNMP polling really supported/available in xymon?
I recompiled 4.3.4 this morning and successfully created the xymon-snmpcollect binary, but I couldn't find any information in the docs or archives on how to use it.
Does anyone have any pointers? I currently use devmon for all of my SNMP polling, but I was interested in seeing what was built into xymon.
-dan
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
On 08-09-2011 18:25, Dan Smith wrote:
Two things
- Does anyone know what the xymon-snmpcollect code is for?
Yes, I wrote the code so I would know ...
- If it is either not used now or not ready for "prime time", it might be a good idea to put a comment in the code or add something to the web site that says that it's not available.
It is part of the distribution (although you could argue it shouldn't be), because Xymon is "my" tool. So sometimes I add stuff which I use, but where the design might not be entirely thought through. Meaning things may change and I may break stuff, so I don't want too many people relying on it working in any specific way.
xymon-snmpcollect is such a tool. It was written because I needed something to collect traffic statistics from a lot of switches, and I was worried if devmon could handle the load. It turns out that the approach I took when writing xymon-snmpcollect wasn't very good - it collects far too much data, and it is problematic pushing such large messages into Xymon. So the design of that tool should be thought through again, and maybe I should just give up on it and figure out how to use devmon for the job.
Regards, Henrik
Thanks for the explanation, Henrik.
I thought it might not be for public consumption, but configure set it up to
be built in the makefile so I figured I'd ask.
...and thanks for continuing to share xymon. It is pretty stunning.
-dan
-----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Henrik Størner Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 4:24 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] SNMP Polling Support
On 08-09-2011 18:25, Dan Smith wrote:
Two things
- Does anyone know what the xymon-snmpcollect code is for?
Yes, I wrote the code so I would know ...
- If it is either not used now or not ready for "prime time", it might be a good idea to put a comment in the code or add something to the web site that says that it's not available.
It is part of the distribution (although you could argue it shouldn't be), because Xymon is "my" tool. So sometimes I add stuff which I use, but where the design might not be entirely thought through. Meaning things may change and I may break stuff, so I don't want too many people relying on it working in any specific way.
xymon-snmpcollect is such a tool. It was written because I needed something to collect traffic statistics from a lot of switches, and I was worried if devmon could handle the load. It turns out that the approach I took when writing xymon-snmpcollect wasn't very good - it collects far too much data, and it is problematic pushing such large messages into Xymon. So the design of that tool should be thought through again, and maybe I should just give up on it and figure out how to use devmon for the job.
Regards, Henrik
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